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Potential integration with a broader smart home setup is also important to consider, as smart home expert Marlon Buchanan points out. "Good options to look for are whether or not the lamp needs a hub for full functionality, because this may add to your cost and setup complexity. You may also be interested in whether or not the light can function as part of a larger ecosystem of lights, which can help create some very impressive light scenes."

At IKEA, we’re great at home furnishing but new to sound. Sonos, on the other hand, has expertise in sound and technology and is curious about new ways of making sound blend into the home – the same as us. Lighting control is a core function of smart lamps, and most allow you to at least adjust the brightness through dimming. Many smart lamps have limited maximum brightness, though, serving more for ambiance and mood lighting than to fully light a room. Some let you change the light's color temperature between warm or cool light, and others offer full color-changing control and effects. The ideal lighting features will depend on where you plan to place the lamp and how you will use it.Separate from the Philips Hue line of smart lighting, Philips SmartSleep products focus on improving your rest and wake-up routines, with the Connected Sleep and Wake-Up Light as the brand's premium smart lamp offering. It could offer a little more in the way of dynamic expression, too. The basics are there, with definite discrepancy between loud and soft, but subtler inflections are lost a little when compared with solely audio-focused rivals. Verdict If that wasn’t enough, a smart speaker can also control compatible smart home devices; for example it can dim or brighten any smart lights you have in your home, turn the temperature up or down if you have a smart thermostat and let you converse with anyone at your doorstep by connecting to your video doorbell. Which voice assistant is best?

We've tested these speakers over a very long time and while we love their sound, we don't love everything. Siri isn't as good as other digital assistants and seems rather buggy too: we've slept late a few times because alarms we asked Siri to set, and which Siri confirmed setting, didn't go off. Siri also seems to struggle with accents. And if you don't have Apple Music, you're quite limited in what you can listen to. You can't ask the HomePod mini to play anything through Spotify – that can only be enabled through AirPlay, and requires using your phone rather than the simpler method of asking Siri to play tunes with your voice. There's also a much smaller number of compatible smart home devices that work with the smart speaker, compared to the range available for Alexa and Google Assistant-enabled smart speakers. You can group two or more SYMFONISK speakers together so they play the same content in sync and you can control the volume of individual speakers in the group.Combining the best of our two worlds we make high-quality sound affordable and available – and create products neither of us would be able to come up with on our own. You've never heard a lamp like this before When shopping for a smart lamp, first consider its use. Where do you want to place this lamp? Is it for reading, lighting up a room, or ambiance?

According to Buchanan, connecting to the hub and additional smart lighting in the Hue line can be worthwhile for smart home aficionados. "I like the Philips Hue Iris because it can easily integrate with Philips' other lights to make impressive displays," says Buchanan. "Like other Philips Hue smart lighting products, the quality and brightness of the lights are top notch." degree sound means that the sound spreads out better in the room – and provides a better experience for the listener.It isn’t that the Symfonisk is particularly bad in any regard, but its rhythmic sense and organisation isn’t quite the tightest we’ve heard from a wireless speaker at this price. Though there is certainly more space here than with IKEA and Sonos’s bookshelf speaker, it isn’t impossible for the presentation to seem a little busy, particularly with denser arrangements, and clarity can suffer on such occasions too. Evidently there is nothing else quite like this on the market, but the real plus is that you aren’t forced wholly to sacrifice sonic prowess to accommodate the quirky design. All in all, we quite like lamp.